My word, Severus, that I shall never reveal the best of you?' Dumbledore sighed, looking down into Snape's ferocious, anguished face. 'If you insist.

What's life without a little risk?

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

How much man likes or hates a person or a thing is dependent on how much he knows or does not know about the person or the thing.

By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

Discipline is the path to happiness.

Lack of discipline. First of all, I think some of them fail because they just don't have natural talent, and they shouldn't even be in the business to begin with.

Fear and faith cannot coexist in our hearts at the same time.

When we step out into the unknown that is when God is made known.

I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.

My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.